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Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather select works from the flat files in preparation for their show at Dominican University that will feature both their individual works and their collaborative works. Stay tuned for details.

Valediction until October 19 in the Electric Works Gallery
Gallery hours: Tuesday- Saturday 11-5 PM

Coming and going the new Bay Bridge is a stunning achievement- not only in the sweep of its sleek skyway and the luminous vertical lines of suspension but also in the feeling of grandeur and openness it brings to the experience of making the crossing.

On Friday evening with artists Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather we will celebrate the opening of the Bay Bridge and this feat of engineering with a reception for Valediction.

In Valediction, Hughen/Starkweather create collaborative artworks that explore the layers, complexities, and patterns that comprise a specific place using both current and historic information, photographs, maps, and data to research a location. The resulting artworks map unique forms and patterns derived from built systems and natural movements of a place.

Valediction is a new series of works on paper by Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather that focuses on the soon-to-be demolished East Span of the Bay Bridge.
As the new bridge nears completion, the original East Span, which has been a part of the daily landscape of hundreds of thousands of commuters, will soon exist only in our collective memory. In Valediction, the artists explore this idea, as well as the past and future of the East Span, including its construction 75 years ago as a railroad bridge, the 1989 earthquake damage that predestined its eventual replacement, and its future as an abandoned structure on the Bay as it is dismantled over the next few years.